The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

worth OF goods. j. w. Smith, once a Sue
cessful commercial traveller. confessed
having received the stolen goods.
Edward W. Cody, night distributing
clerk in the postoffice at Toledo, has been
arrested for robbing the mails Nine silver
dollars marked by a detective, were found
in his trunk.
wealthy San Francisco man named
Willis has found his sixteen-year-old
daughter, who was stolen from home when
four years old, in the Industrial School at
Rochester, n. Y.
The Sam Mitchell iron mine at Negaunee,
Mich, has been sold for $225,0OO TO the
Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company, of
New York. The ore wlll be shipped to
Erie for smelling.
Sarah E. Howe, the notorious Boston
banker, served a term in State prison and
then resumed business among tAe credUl-
Gus. 1t is now said that she has fled with
$500 of deposits.
Judge Dykerson, distinguished attorney
and Democratic politician of Northern In.
diana, lost his power of speech, Thursday,
in court room at Delphi, while arguing
IN an insurance case.
Alexander MCGOWAN, a Scotch painter,
lost his footing on a scaffold in Chicago.
He fell sixty feet, and the mass of broken
bones and bruised flesh barely breathed
when it was picked up.
Robert w. Gatewood, young graduate
from Annapolis having become crazed by
close application to study, killed himself
on board a steamer bound to Norfolk,
where his father resided.
Rev. s. Gerstman, a rabbi of St Louis,
who was Lieutenant in the Florida war,
and was wounded in fight with the
Seminoles, has been granted arrears Of pen
sion amounting to S.. 600,
Choice beeves sold up to S. in the Chi
cago market Friday. Sixteen carloads of
cattle were thursday shipped to England,
the first event OF the kind in several
months. The best hogs bring $500.
Sixty meat dealers at Akron, Ohio, re-
Gently refused to handle carcasses shipped
thither from Chicago by Armour & Co.
The firm opened three retail markets and
speedily brought the boycott to a close.
The survivors of General Pickett's Con-
federate division will on July 3 erect on
the field of Gettysburg a monument of
Virginia granite to mark the spot where
they made heroic charge and pierced the
federal lines.
The wholesale drug store of the Charles
| Baumbach Company, located at Market
| Square, Milwaukee, was Friday noon de-
stroyed by fire. Rudolph label, a clerk,
| was badly burned by e explosion of var
nish. The loss is $4,000.
Professor James Law, of Cornell Univer-
sity, member of the National Bureau of
Animal Industry, has arrived in Chicago
with authority to take all necessary steps
for the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia
in Illinois, Indiana and other States.
A hotel in the central portion of Amster.
dam, crowded with strangers witnessing
the festivities connected with the Kings
birthday, took fire during Thursday night
and was wholly burned. Four lives were
lost, and many persons sustained serious
injuries.
| William N. Miller of De Kalk County,
Georgia, who was indicted for running a
distillery, secured transfer OF his case to
the Federal Court on writ of habeas cor
i pus. The State Judge has called the at
tentlon Of Governor Gordon to the matter,
and Will claim jurisdiction of the offender.
In the Domini Parliament Friday, Mr..
Weldon said the Canadians relied not
upon their military strength for a settle.
ment of the fishery dispute, but upon the
good judgment of the people of the United
States. Mr.. Blake, leader of the oppo.
sition, censured the Government fer keep
ing the country in the dark as TO negoti-
ations in progress.
Rebecca A. Hall, who killed her husband
| in Chicago last year and was acquitted on
the ground of seIf-defense, is dying of con-
sumption at the home of her parents in
Lexington Ky. She sent relative to OBJ
tam from the police certain jewelry and
clothing taken from herself and the corpse
of her husband, for which the jail officials
obtained her receipt.
At the close of business last week an
easier feeling prevailed for wheat, corn and
oats, but rye ruled firm and barley steady,
while flour sold fairly, with prices more
than usually well sustained. Provisions,
however, developed a weaker tone, and
were dull, but chan es in prices were OF
little moment. Groceries remained firm,
dairy products steady and general meF.
chandise quiet. The loan market is
easier, with currency plenty, while East
ern exchange is strong; securities
were quiet and easier In tone. The New
York bank statement is favorable for an
easy money market at that point.
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